Home-goings: A Black American Funeral Tradition
On April 7, 2017, my family and I hosted a home-going to celebrate the life of my great aunt. A home-going is a traditional African American, Christian funeral…
On April 7, 2017, my family and I hosted a home-going to celebrate the life of my great aunt. A home-going is a traditional African American, Christian funeral…
Heutzutage werden wir mit einer enormen Produktvielfalt von Gesichtsmasken zur Reinigung der Haut überschwemmt. Obwohl wir doch so viel Auswahl haben, ist es trotzdem schwer, das richtige Produkt…
Op maandag 10 april jl. vond aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam een bijeenkomst plaats over de normalisering van islamofobie. De bijeenkomst was georganiseerd door het Collectief tegen Islamofobie…
David Beriss A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should include? Send links and brief descriptions to…
This Earth Day, 22 April, People across the world will be celebrating the important role that science plays in supporting human freedom and prosperity. This is an event…
Budka, P. 2017. Medien und Literalität in der Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie: (Digitale) Medienpraktiken aus kulturvergleichender Perspektive. Vortrag im Workshop “Dark Side of Literacy”…
By Kate McGrath I am a scientist. Some people would probably call me a woman-scientist, and those people are jerks. Though it’s easy to forget, women make up…
Auch kam es ab den 2000er Jahren verstärkt vor, dass anerkannte Haute-Couture-Häuser, zumeist aus Kostengründen, an den Haute-Couture-Schauen nicht teilnahmen (bspw. Balmain, Scherrer), lediglich Prêt…
Vorspann Haute Couture Haute Couture: die Mode (besonders in Paris) tonangebende Schneiderkunst, tonangebendes schöpferisches Modeschaffen. Im engeren Sinne ist damit die Damenmode der wenigen Modehäu…
My paper on affective infrastructure has just come out in the latest issue of Public Culture. http://publicculture.dukejournals.org/content/29/2_82/363.abstract The paper builds on the work on …
I am leading a research group at the moment called SLOM:Lab (Social life of Methods Lab). This is a blog post I wrote for the SLOM:Lab.org website last …
Yesterday, walking to see friends in Boston’s South End, I stumbled across Olives and Grace I am working on a project called The Artisanal Economies. So I had…
Local testimonies build understandings of global climate change and galvanize meaningful action. There is a lot of talk about how we can bring the climate change message to…
Hi all,Welcome to a jam-packed link review!Development news: #BringBackOurGirls-All they got was a hashtag?; pepsi-fication of resistance; Kathmandu is building back unsafe; mo’ #globaldev…
Hi all,Welcome to a jam-packed link review!Development news: #BringBackOurGirls-All they got was a hashtag?; pepsi-fication of resistance; Kathmandu is building back unsafe; mo’ #globaldev…
The first 100 days of Donald J Trump’s presidency have had few tangible results and many notable setbacks—court blocked travel
The first 100 days of Donald J Trump’s presidency have had few tangible results and many notable setbacks—court blocked travel
China und Südkorea sind sowohl kulturell als auch wirtschaftlich eng miteinander verbunden. Eine diplomatische Fehde treibt jedoch seit Monaten einen Keil in die Beziehungen, die im März 2017…
The first 100 days of Donald J Trump’s presidency have had few tangible results and many notable setbacks—court blocked travel
The first 100 days of Donald J Trump’s presidency have had few tangible results and many notable setbacks—court blocked travel
Frankreich ist seit langem eines der wichtigsten europäischen Aufnahmeländer von Schutzsuchenden, wobei in den vergangenen Jahren vergleichsweise wenige Asylbewerber nach Frankreich gelangt sind. Über…
When I went to Costa Rica to do the fieldwork that eventually allowed me to pursue my MA degree in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, I did not…